Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.